Judd Apatow

Ever since Steven Spielberg unleashed "Jaws" to audiences in 1975, essentially inventing the summer blockbuster, the hottest months of the year have become home to the biggest-budget pictures of the Hollywood slate. Each year, the summer season seems to expand a little — "Furious 7" was breaking records in early April — but the general consensus is that it truly starts with the first weekend of May. As "Avengers: Age of Ultron" kicks off the season with midnight showings tonight, the Times has made a guide of all of the big-budget flicks to keep your eyes on this summer. Opening tonight Avengers: Age of Ultron The sequel to 2012's...

Richard Linklater's next film, a to-be-titled baseball comedy that has been described as a spiritual sequel to "Dazed and Confused," will hit theaters April 15, Paramount Pictures announced Monday.
The film, which was formerly known as...

Nicki Minaj sure curdled some bad blood during a Twitter tirade that went down on Tuesday after the 2015 MTV Video Music Award nominees were announced.
The perennially snubbed rapper, who received three nods to Taylor Swift's nine this...

On Monday night at the AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami, Sam Smith wanted his audience to know that he's over the man who inspired "In the Lonely Hour," the baldly confessional debut album that made the 23-year-old British singer an unlikely...

Jon Stewart enters the home stretch of his 16 years on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" on Monday, with 12 more nights of jokes at the expense of those who make and report the news before he signs off for good on Aug. 6. Stewart's exit, the...

Marvel's "Ant-Man" punched above its weight at the weekend box office, debuting with an estimated $58 million, while Amy Schumer's "Trainwreck" also opened strongly with $30.2 million. The result didn't match some of Marvel's better...

Amy Schumer has built her relatively young career on (among other things) transgression.
“Inside Amy Schumer” — tied with “Key & Peele” as the funniest Comedy Central sketch show — is dominated by satirical views of gender issues, unhampered by...

Let us now praise Amy Schumer.
With her ribald rom-com "Trainwreck," the Comedy Central star has graduated to movie stardom on her own sassy terms.
She has given us a break from superheroes, dinosaurs and animated characters....

Superhero film "Ant-Man" topped the weekend with $58 million, marking the 12th consecutive Marvel film to open in first place.
Going into the weekend, "Ant-Man" was expected to open with up to $65 million, much like Marvel's...

Writer-star Amy Schumer's bawdy romantic comedy "Trainwreck" is anything but a disaster, according to film critics. The Judd Apatow-directed romp about a hard-living magazine writer (Schumer) wrestling with monogamy after meeting a down-to-earth...

"What's wrong with you that you want to be with me?" asks Amy, the intimacy-averse writer whose troubles are the subject of "Trainwreck," a surprisingly touching and raucously funny R-rated comedy written by and starring Amy...

In the documentary "More Than a Game," LeBron James describes how his childhood room was decorated with pictures of basketball stars. A wall for Michael Jordan. Another for Allen Iverson. A third for Kobe Bryant. Yes, they were all lauded...

Judd Apatow is not wavering on his criticism of comedian Bill Cosby, who's been accused of sexual misconduct by more than two dozen women over four decades. While attending the world premiere of his latest film, "Trainwreck," in New York Tuesday...

SEATTLE Amy Schumer was riding back from a radio appearance in Seattle the other week when she asked the driver to stop and let her out. After weeks on the road with the sold-out "Trainwreck Comedy Tour" a never-ending cycle of plane...

From his early stand-up career to his iconic sitcom "Seinfeld" and his latest success, the web series "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee," Jerry Seinfeld has gained the lasting respect of his peers.
In his new book "Sick in the...

Phil Morris may have found notoriety acting in a wide range of genre favorites, from "Star Trek III" and "Smallville" to "Seinfeld." But now he's finding online fame in fictionalized retellings of fake battles from films...

If you've seen "Spy" with Melissa McCarthy, you're already aware that the movie nails its first big laugh — the sneezing-assassin joke — within moments of the opening credits. Even if you know it's coming, the timing is just right. And right...

A recurring feeling has accompanied Amy Schumer's rapid ascent in show business. "It's always: I walk in a room thinking maybe I belong in here," she says over a plate of meatballs at a Greenwich Village cafe. "And then I get reminded...

MOVIES Opening Friday "Trainwreck" (R): After becoming a star through her popular TV skit show, Amy Schumer ventures into film with this comedy (directed by Knocked Up's Judd Apatow) about a woman afraid of commitment who is trying to...